A Poet Of The Counter- Reformation
SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. T. U. Taylor, in writing of Robert Southwell, inspires me to a similar essay in the emotive use of language. That lovely character Ignatius of......
Sir,—we All Admire The Devotion Of Brave Men Who Have
endured sufferings and met their death for the sake of their deeply rooted con- victions, not least some of the Roman Catholic missionaries in different parts of the world. But......
Sir,—it Is Interesting To See That The Time- Honoured...
of religious and political groups to the denigration of one another's martyrs is still going strong. First Mr. Evelyn Waugh sneers at the Marian martyrs for heretic cranks, then......
'the Reluctant Legionnaire' Sir,—spirits (both Sorts),...
I should be grateful if you would allow me to establish several practical points arising from Strix's review of my book The Reluctant Legionnaire. 1. I do not consider I......
Political Philosophy Sir, —may I Say That When I Described
Profes- sor Oakeshott's inaugural lecture as 'a wily defence of the shabby against the new' I meant by `shabby' time-worn' and not, as one reader supposed, 'underhand'?—Yours......
Sir,—i Am Amazed To Read (spectator. June 15) A Review
by Virginia Graham of Women in Antiquity by Charles Seltman. The review seems to me to be a complete distortion of historical fact and balance. Take this: . . up to the......
Dylan Thomas's Letters
SIR,—As Trustees for the copyrights of Dylan Thomas (appointed by his widow) we wish to make as complete a collection as possible of the texts of his letters. May we, therefore,......
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